Incineration Cannon is back and has changed compared to Halo 4. players can charge up a shot and the longer you charge, the more powerful it is. Battery based rather than ammo based. railgun is back from Halo 4 and works almost identically - could hold up to 11 shotsOvershield was present had some weird screen effect when you picked it up - looked like a bugboltshot is back but doesn't work like halo 4 - no shotgun fire mode. fires two shots at once and sort of tracks playerssuppressor is back and fires a lot slowerblue outline on weapons was in the buildkillcams were disabled in the build, could spectate players while you were deadbr spread was near-gone - fired so fastspartan chatter was reduced hugely, less pointless calloutsspartan bro moments cut down. game ending segment is just your spartans walking towards the screen, no more highfives and shitkillfeed modified to be like this: "PLAYER NAME" "WEAPON KILLED WITH" "PLAYER NAME"pistol RoF is modified to be slower but is a lot more powerful - competes with AR and BRground pound is harder to use, radius is tinyovershield was bugged, my shields said i constantly had it even after death

Last one I played was Reach and that had fuck all to do with the Master Chief story arch. Who the are the poetheans? Who are blue team? Who the fuck is this Locke dude? I'm gonna be so fucking confused playing Guardians it isn't even funny.

>>297731868Sure it is, Magnum's a spawn weapon that takes a lot of shots to kill, but comes with a ton of ammo. LR takes little ammo to kill and drops with minimal ammo in general, like a power weapon.

Sure, I'll agree it's not like the other formally defined power weapons in the game, but it's certainly not a BR/DMR/Carbine equivalent. Though that might be a good thing, as too much of the same weapon type does get boring.

>>297732253I think the problems is lots of it isn't even in explained in the games. You need to read the books to even know what's going on now, and reading is for faggots. Who wants to give me a brief summery of what happened in Halo 4? Someone please tell me tge Flood didn't somehow make a miraculous return.

>>297732672>Chef crashlands on a forerunner planet>Accidentally releases THE ANCIENT EVIL>Ohfug>ANCIENT EVIL has a machine that turns humans into Bionicles>Humans arrive>Battle>An old Forerunner tells Chef that he is literally the chosen one>Humans think Chef is insane>Chef goes after ANCIENT EVIL>People die>Chef nukes the ANCIENT EVIL>Cortana dies>Chef is sad>Flood eats the Spirit of Fire

>>297732789>...uuuugghhhh...>...really? Halo fucking 5?>...whatever, I don't care. Enjoy your shit game, I guess.20+ maps at launch, far more than any other game in the series/most console shooters (that's 15+ more than splatoon btw)All DLC is FREECo op campaign with blue team/Buck.No more loadoutsNo more ordinance60fps

If you don't like Halo, then sure, but if you're a fan of the series, this is looking very good

>>297733507>She tells you you're LITERALLY the chosen oneNo, she just means that the special genes which Halsey found in Spartans were seeded by her, and that the whole effort of reseeding the galaxy was working as evidenced by humanity's technological evolution. People seem to think that just because the Librarian said she planned stuff out that she literally planned every second of every person's life in the series for some strange reason. Hell, Halsey herself makes it clear in Spartan Ops that she doesn't consider the Spartan IVs real Spartans at all, biologically or psychologically

>>297733901>>>297733372 (You)>Those 20 maps are going to be 10 unique maps, then 10 clones of those maps. Just like in the beta, I'm not too impressed.And you know this because...the fact is you don't know it, because if you did. You'd know there are MORE than 20 maps at launch

>>297734403Alright, 10 maps will be unique, 10 maps will be remix clones and the rest will be forge maps then. That's how it was in the beta and I fully expect it to stay this way. Maybe the DLC maps will all be unique though.

>>297735875H1's multiplayer lead left after finishing the gameHalo 2 was rushed, and wasn't what Bungie's original idea for multiplayer was. Button glitches made it better, but were glitches nevertheless.ODST had no multiplayer for them to fuck up.

>>297736037And none of that changes that the game was great. Hell Bungie's original idea for multiplayer was even more ambitious, they were held back by hardware constraints. >>297736237>Halo 3 is the best game in the series.literally nah

>>297736654They've scrapped too many core features, they can go fuck themselves. I don't even care about the direction their taking the lore and story. No local co-op for campaign and no fucking 4-player deathmatches? Are you fucking kidding me? Why do I even have more than one controller? Fucking dropped, 343 can fuck right off.

>>297736928I'm just messing around anon, H3 was fun and I honestly can't bring myself to dislike H3 or even any of the Halo games that came after it. But I still personally had way more fun with CE PC LAN parties and Halo 2.

>>297736720>implying I didn't rock that shit alongside Zombies back in the glory days

Not even the same guy, but in a mostly objective point of view, Halo 3 had the best multiplayer so far. Best customs, best Forge maps (although not the best Forge mode), best community, and best vehicle balance. Halo 2 reigns as the best overall, but if we're talking in terms of multiplayer alone, 3 wins.

>>297737012>It doesn't override all the good newsYes it fucking does. The "good news" is just 343 telling us Halo is going to be Halo.

No campaign co-op or local splitscreen means half the fucking game is missing. Local multiplayer is what made Halo, and by the extension the Xbox itself, what they are today, this is simply insulting. Stripping out core features is NEVER okay, I don't care how they try to spin it.

Not surprising all the media outlets quietly pretended that wasn't said and focused entirely on the TWENTY FREE MAPS GUIZ BUY NOW PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MISSING CORE FEATURES YOU'VE USED FOR THE LAST DECADE!

>>297737276>in a mostly objective point of view, Halo 3 had the best multiplayer so far.Switch "objective" with subjective" or "personal" and you're exactly correct.>Best customs, best Forge maps (although not the best Forge mode), best community, and best vehicle balance. Halo 2 reigns as the best overall, but if we're talking in terms of multiplayer alone, 3 wins.That's a nice opinion, but I think you will find it is hotly contested.

No fucking excuse, they're just hiding behind it so they don't have to say "Well, MS told us to cut it so they could sell more Xbones and Gold subs."

The campaign and MP will still be 60fps when played alone, adding other multiplayer options doesn't change that. Fuck MS and fuck 343 for removing what has been an integral and core feature the series pioneered and popularized on consoles

Splitscreen is two local players max and there's no LAN, so that means local MP is basically dead.

You can only do 1-on-1 or play together online, no more local free-for-alls or 4+ player deathmatches.

If anything I'm not reacting harshly enough, this is akin to Smash or Mario Kart removing or severely limiting local multiplayer. Literally half the reason to even play the game is gone, you can't play with friends anymore unless they have their own console, game and sub.

>>297738315No, it's MS's loss, because now I'm not buying their console or game. Bought an original XB and a 360 for Halo, not worth it this time if local multiplayer and campaign co-op are fucking gone.

I really disliked the promethians and their weapons. Was one of them even remotely effective at breaking through their shields? Because of how shit the visual clues were I didn't even realize they had shields until the middle of the game.